DIRNSA Fired
April 7 2025In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying...
Read moreRayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
March 8 2025The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
Read moreAtlas of Surveillance
February 18 2025The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
Read moreUK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
February 8 2025The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to...
Read moreGoogle Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
January 3 2025Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD (1/12): Shashdot thread.
Read moreThe Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
November 22 2024Interesting analysis:
We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedomwebsites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and...
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Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant
November 21 2024This feels important: The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque...
Read moreWhy Italy Sells So Much Spyware
November 19 2024Interesting analysis:
Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under...
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Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US
November 13 2024DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners. It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped. The post Mapping License Plate...
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